Monthly Archives: July 2010

So I guess I can get a short depth of field and decent bokeh with the E-PL1 and the 20mm f1.7 pancake lens. I’m not sure why it works better in some shots than others, however. I think it helped that I got pretty close to this gentleman, but I’ve had other shots taken at […]

I have been doing some preliminary research into infrared photography lately, after seeing some breathtaking images. It looks like it is going to be a real pain whether you do it digitally or with film. Infrared film requires special handling and processing, and your options today for getting any film processing done are limited. You […]

After Sunday’s huge post, and even yesterday’s longish one that also included a processed HDR, it is a relief today to get back to my street photography. The inspiration for each shot comes naturally, they are very easy to process, and they also require little commentary from me. I hope they are as satisfying.

There’s an overwhelming amount of information about taking and processing photographs that I do not know, but I am at the point where some zones of knowledge are within my expertise. When post-processing, there are certain brushes, sliders and filters that I know pretty well. For a while I would apply many of them to […]

Yesterday I participated in Scott Kelby’s sponsored Worldwide Photo Walk. I took part in the Jersey City edition of the walk, which had many, many such local walks literally around the globe. I chose Jersey City because it is an area I do not know yet is still close and accessible. I chose to bring […]

This is kind of interesting. This photo has been sitting in my ready pile for weeks, but not looking like this. I had cropped it down to cut out the woman. I think I was distracted a bit in the early days of taking and publishing these shots to catch someone looking at me. […]

This diner is very close to the I-86 or 17 West Diner I posted about on Sunday, roughly just a couple of miles down the road. This is the diner I think might have been open for part of the last 10-12 years during which I have been occasionally driving on Route 17, but […]

As someone who engages in street photography regularly, I’d like to recommend to you Taking Photos In Public Places Is Not A Crime: Analysis, by Glenn Harlan Reynolds, law professor at the University of Tennessee and blogger at Instapundit. I also recommend 5 Tips for Street Photography by Brian Q. Webb on Craig Ferguson’ s […]

This is what I saw walking home tonight after getting off of the bus. I couldn’t even see properly as I was returning from my annual eye exam and my pupils were still dilated. Still, I could tell that was an amazing silhouette behind the park, so I pulled out my Olympus Pen […]

This is an interior view of the covered bridge at Livingston Manor in the Catskills. It is currently called the Livingston Manor Covered Bridge, and earlier has been named the Motts Flats Bridge and Vantran Bridge. I took several different shots of this same interior and might post a few more. By moving […]

Yesterday I drove more than 6 hours (round trip) to photograph a trio of diners I have been eyeing for more than 10 years. They are all on Route 17, which runs through the Catskill Mountains in central New York. I have been driving Route 17 1-2 times yearly for about 13 years, as […]